There is no true love save in suffering, and in this world we have to choose either love, which is suffering, or happiness. Man is the more man - that is, the more divine - the greater his capacity for suffering, or rather, for anguish.
There is no true love save in suffering, and in this world we have to choose either love, which is suffering, or happiness. Man is the more man - that is, the more divine - the greater his capacity for suffering, or rather, for anguish.
All of our energy should be in sacrifice and services. Suffering, at least.
To Buddha, the second figure in the painting, life on earth was bitter, filled with attachments and desires that led to suffering.
Suffering isn't ennobling, recovery is.
When another person makes you suffer, it is because he suffers deeply within himself, and his suffering is spilling over. He does not need punishment he needs help. That's the message he is sending.
Torture is defined, with reasonable certainty, severe pain and suffering, physical or psychological. It is defined about as well as legal terms can be defined.
Men are never convinced of your reasons, of your sincerity, of the seriousness of your sufferings, except by your death. So long as you are alive, your case is doubtful you have a right only to their skepticism.
We have lived through the flood time of fascism and of the nazism which ran its meteoric course at a cost to mankind in suffering and waste beyond all computation.
The love of justice in most men is only the fear of suffering injustice.
his compassion for the world's dispossessed is well-known. This contribution will help to ease their (Afghan's) suffering.
This isn't the first time Ty and Children's Hunger Fund have partnered to help children in need. Ty has been an excellent supporter of our efforts to relieve the suffering of children, ... In January, they gave us 1 million Beanie Babies to send to the children of Iraq as a goodwill gesture. They gave 90,000 for the victims of the Tsunami and they help us every year with toys for our holiday distributions.
unconscionable, that someone would attempt to take advantage of the suffering of thousands to his own benefit.
As a physician, Senator Frist has a moral calling to save lives and alleviate suffering. He joins Nancy Reagan, dozens of Nobel Laureates, thousands of scientists, and millions of patients across the nation in calling for an end to the restrictions that have shackled the search for new cures. I applaud his courage in putting patients over politics.
What should not be overlooked, however, is that after suffering the disappointment of losing an early lead, and the frustration of watching shot after shot clang off the rim (or worse, hit nothing), we didn't quit.
Tolerance for pain and suffering is no measure of strength.
It truly saddens me, however, that the relationship so nurtured between our two countries should have been marred by the Second World War. The Empress and I can never forget the many kinds of suffering so many people have undergone because of that war. At the thought of the scars of war that they bear, our hearts are filled with deep sorrow and pain.
Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. And no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dream.
It is a glorious thing to be indifferent to suffering, but only to one's own suffering.
At this stage we are not soliciting anything other than donations. That may change. Our ethics advisory board and our historical practice have allowed us to pay woman for pain and suffering, as well as lost wages, as well as child care.
We have listened here to the delegates who have recalled the terrible human suffering, and the great material destruction of the late war in the Pacific. It is with feelings of sorrow that we recall the part played in that catastrophic human experience by the old Japan.
A man who fears suffering is already suffering from what he fears.
merely replacing Secretary O'Neill and Lindsey is not a solution. With our economy stalling, unemployment rising and confidence suffering, it is clear that we need more than new faces. We need a new plan to stimulate our economy now.
In fact, this is a blackmail of the terrorists at the expense of the suffering of the hostages.
The burden of suffering seems a tombstone hung about our necks, while in reality it is only the weight which is necessary to keep down the diver while he is hunting for pearls.
I don't think you should make a quick buck off of other people's pain and suffering.
My wife has a Modus. She tells me she loves it I say to her, 'I wish there were more like you'. We imagined a segment but it turned out to be much smaller. We have built factory capacity much larger than what we are selling, and we are suffering.
Accept, accept that I have won, whispers the Devil. You can see for yourself that life is unjust, unfair, that suffering is ordinary. Who is stronger I am, of course. Just despair, my dear, despair. Only tell me that I am strong, that Evil rules.
After four years since the beginning of the tragedy in the Balkans, we have to recognize the painful fact that this conflict has brought nothing but grief, suffering and destruction, ... There have been no winners in this war, nor could there have been any. Everyone has lost -- the Serbs, the Croats, the Muslims and Europe as a whole.
Through the strait pass of suffering --
The Martyrs -- even -- trod.
Death remains about the one certain fact in the lives of each one of us, and there will be suffering, sorrow, and sadness next week as there was last week.
Life is one, said the Buddha, and the Middle Way to the end of suffering in all its forms is that which leads to the end of the illusion of separation, which enables man to see, as a fact as clear as sunlight, that all mankind, and all other forms in manifestation, are one unit, the infinitely variable appearance of an indivisible Whole.
A lot of compelling stories in the world aren't being told, and the fact that people don't know about them compounds the suffering.
Suffering is part of the divine idea.
Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering.
Wisdom comes alone through suffering.
If we could only snap the fetters of the body that bind the feet of the soul, we shall experience a great joy. Then we shall not be miserable because of the body's sufferings. We shall become free.
Even when he was sick, you still felt a sense of comfort when he was around. It shows you he not only had a physical presence but a reputation, an aura. I had heard he made it a point to be there on Messier night. Even through the pain and suffering, he was still focused on his responsibilities. It shows character and toughness, too.
There is an enormous amount of medical expense in this case. I imagine it is in the neighborhood of the mid to upper six figures, if not seven figures. And that's just medical expenses, not pain and suffering.
Job cuts are mainly coming from manufacturers, who are still suffering. We are going to see further increases in the claimant count rate and the odds of any sort of wage inflation problem emerging are diminishing rapidly.
Because of our kinship in suffering, our channels of contact have always been charged with the language of the heart.
We feel the wait time issue has to be dealt with urgently, partly because of the resource shortage in different areas and partly because of the suffering of patients,
Amazing things were said, ... The prime minister of the Palestinian Authority talked about the suffering of Jewish people. It's a strong statement. The prime minister of Israel talked about a Palestinian state which was free. The statements were strong.
I think we all need to be a part of the suffering and the solution. We need more humility as Americans.
Tory's work was especially important because so few people who are suffering physically as much as she was are able to communicate with the outside world the way she did. She had sort of a preternatural drive to communicate the extent of her physical suffering.
Nor is the suffering limited to children in developing countries.
The reward of suffering is experience.
One tragedy here, one tragedy there, ... We go through different acts, but we all go through the same pain, the same suffering, the same recovery.
Among the remedies which it has pleased Almighty God to give to man to relieve his sufferings, none is so universal and so efficacious as opium.
Almost everybody is enthusiastic about the promise of biotechnology to cure disease and to relieve suffering.
Chorus Zeus, who guided men to think who laid it down that wisdom comes alone through suffering. Still there drips in sleep against the heart grief of memory against our pleasure we are temperate.
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